Ben Shapiro

combined with an open border policy where it wasn't just, okay, there are a few people who got caught here and they can't go home because things are really bad.

Instead, what we'll do is we'll open the border wide and we'll say, if you can get in, right, if you can just get in by falsely claiming asylum, which again, the standard for asylum is not your home country is dangerous.

It is you are specifically targeted in your own home country.

It's a different status.

Or if you illegally immigrate, which is what happened under Obama and Biden,

And then you label their home countries too dangerous to go back to.

You can actually effectuate tens of millions of people coming into the country illegally and then getting a form of legal status under TPS.

The Trump administration is trying to backfill that problem by using the tools they have under the law.

And what, again, I think are ways that are don't meet common definitions.

But that's not the question.

The question is, what tools did the Trump administration have under the law?

And now again, all of this is very hot stuff and was very hot stuff during the election cycle.

President Trump particularly was going after Haitian migrants in Minnesota, pointing out, or Ohio rather, he was pointing out that Haitian migrants in Ohio were not assimilating well.

And again, let's be real about this.

Not everyone assimilates at the same rate in terms of general group and culture.

Pretending that people who are coming from, say, an English-speaking country that shares democratic values with those of the United States

A group of immigrants from Australia or something.

That's the same as a group of immigrants from Haiti is silly.

This became very hot because there were online rumors that turned out to be, shall we say, wildly exaggerated that Haitians were eating dogs and cats around the neighborhood back in 2024.

Here was the president in a debate.